Happy Father’s Day to all of you. I hope you were able to talk to your father, maybe give him a hug today. And if your father, like mine, has gone on, that you have many good memories to make your heart smile.
My dad was a farmer. This picture is one I took of him going out to feed the cows on a winter day. He always worked hard, but he found time for fun too. He was very competitive. He loved playing cards, pitching horseshoes and playing clay court croquet. After I married, he built a building for a pool table. He built a barn and garages even though he wasn’t a builder. He once had a sawmill to make the lumber he needed for building.
He figured out a way to do what he wanted to get done. Maybe part of that was from living through the Great Depression and World War II. He didn’t serve in the army since he was a farmer. The country needed farmers raising crops. He had three girls and no sons. I was the youngest and probably a disappointment when I wasn’t a boy. But if so, I never felt that from him. He was a good dad.
My husband is a good dad too. Here he is with our daughter on a trip a few years ago.
She might remember him saying some of this dad’s sayings that I shared this in our church bulletin today. I hope reading through them makes you smile and remember.
THINGS DADS SAY
- Enough is enough!
- Because I said so, that’s why!
- If you don’t stop crying, I’ll give you something to cry about.
- Wipe that smile off your face.
- Act like you’ve got some sense.
- Two wrongs don’t make a right.
- When I say no, I mean no.
- Shut the door. You act like you were raised in a barn.
- Cut the comedy!
- We’ll do it the right way. My way!
What do you remember your dad saying when you were a kid?
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When we were complaining about a small ouchie
Dad: Does your face hurt?
Us: No
Dad: Well it is killing me.
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That’s funny, Tammy, but I’m sure sometimes you weren’t always ready to laugh when he told you that. Dads, they help us see what’s not so bad after all. The one I always hated to hear was that I was going to trip over my lip when I was pouting. Guess it helped. I stopped pouting and got mad. LOL.
My father used to always say, “Leave a place cleaner than you found it.”
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We’d have a prettier and nice world if everybody listened to your father’s advice and did that, Suzanne.
Almost is not good enough!
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That’s a dad that wanted you to get it right, Lisa. Sometimes we need that push to get us over the hump in whatever we’re doing.